Our book club selection for September has been officially extended to October, which is perfect for the spookiest month of the year!

Mazywood by Tananarive Due is our book selection for the BGN book club and she will join us in a virtual chat on 10/28 at 2:00 pm ET/11:00 am PT.

Set primarily in the present day, with haunting flashbacks to Hollywood’s Golden Age, Mazywood explores three generations while following Johnny as he pieces together the true story of his grandmother. As a young Black actress whose career spanned from the 1920s to the 1940s, Mazelle brushed shoulders with giants like Lena Horne, Clark Gable, and Hattie McDaniel. But beneath her public appearance, she carried a secret she had kept and nurtured since she was a child, when a dark wish came true and changed the course of her life forever.

Now, fifty years after Mazelle’s death, Johnny finds himself confronting the truth she buried—and the consequences she left behind. For a monster lurks outside Mazywood, hidden for generations, and Johnny brought his family to its hunting grounds.

The Zoom invite to our BGN Sanctuary members will come later this month!